In conjunction with an exhibition at the Arnold Schönberg Center, the seminar will focus on the period of “Jung-Wiener” music around the Viennese composers Arnold Schönberg and Alexander Zemlinsky between 1895 and 1911. Jung-Wien provided a trove of influences that were especially significant in shaping Schönberg’s artistic personality in the diversity of his spheres of work. The cultural climate of Vienna around 1900 will be analyzed in the seminar by means of literary and musical works of the time, and Schönberg’s role as the embodiment of Viennese Modernism will be considered along with his connections to Karl Kraus, Hermann Bahr, and Adolf Loos. The participants have the opportunity to develop selected topics with the help of original sources from the Schönberg archive.